They extend forever in a heap unless you use DBMS_SESSION.FREE_UNUSED_US
ER_MEMORY. My experience is that use of this call uses so much CPU it
outweighs the advantages of using PL/SQL tables.

Cheers,

John Thomas
Oracle development DBA

In article <F001.004A784D.20020731084837_at_fatcity.com>, Frédéric MAJOR
<frederic.major_at_sydel.fr> writes
>Hi,>>Oracle : 7.3.4.5.0>OS : AIX 4.3.3>>I have a PL/SQL code of statistics (hours of execution).>The server process created by Oracle take more and more memory over the time>by looking at v$sesstat about 'session pga memory' and OS with 'ps'.>I am quite sure it is a bug in our program, but my question is> What is in PGA ?> How can we know the size of each element with v$... views ?>Thanks for your support.>>Cordialement,>Frédéric Major>DBA>>-- >Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com

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